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Them (a.k.a. Ils) | 
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| Directors: David Moreau, Xavier Palud
Actors: Olivia Bonamy, Michael Cohen
Studio: Dark Sky Films
Category: DVD
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Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 14843
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Ntsc, Subtitled
Languages: French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 77 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: DVD8141
UPC: 030306814193
EAN: 0030306814193
ASIN: B000X1RYEQ
Theatrical Release Date: August 17, 2007
Release Date: March 25, 2008
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Product Description
The Film That Terrified Europe Has Come To AmericaA young couple lead a happy quiet life in the countryside. But little do they know they're being surrounded. When night falls the couple will come face to face with THEM. They are everywhere even in their home. Who are they? What do they want? The answers will take them to the very limits of fear itself."Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS UPC: 030306814193 Manufacturer No: DVD8141
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 I was very sleepy while watching "THEM" November 7, 2008
Avery Hemming (somewher in USA)
The trailer looked great for the movie "Them." It looked like it would be a very frantic and intense movie to watch. Instead, it turned out to be a very boring and irritating movie for me to watch. I also had a hard time trying not to fall asleep. I checked out the positive reviews on Amazon and it sounded like it was going to be a classic horror movie. This movie will receive a negative review from me and I find it hard to believe that someone would actually be shaking with fear after watching this movie.
This movie had the approach of everything happening step by step like a novice guide to making a horror movie. Part one, watch the mother and daughter's sterile tragic demise. Part two, understand what your leading bland female does for a living before she goes home to her man. Part three, get to know the boring leading male before he has dinner with his lady. Part five, they are invaded by "THEM." Part six, they try to escape from "THEM." Part seven, see "THEM" leave the scene of the crime and it's the end of the movie. What a waste of time!
The scare factor didn't work when you were reminded that this was based on an actual event. The leading couples were generic and there will be absolutely no emotional investments in their character development department. Their only purpose in this movie is to be scared, run and hide, and try to escape for help. I won't reveal the group of people who comprise of "THEM," but since I'm one foot taller than most of my attackers, I'm going to run after "THEM" and make "THEM" scared for ever trying to mess with me. You'll know what I mean after finding out who "THEM" group of people are. I've seen other movies of these type of attackers that creeps me out. If I mentioned the name of the movies that creeped me out, then it would tell you what type of attackers I'm desrcribing in this movie. Therefore, I won't mention the name of the movies.
It was extremely irritating for me to hear the couples running inside the house or even to hear "THEM" running around loosely inside the house. It wasn't creepy and it was no different from hearing someone banging the hammer over and over far too long to the point where you remove the hammer away from this person and zonk them over the head with it for being such an annoying pest! When the couple are running outside, the running sound effect was horrendously fake and embarrassing to hear.
It was a terrifying experience to pay $20 for this movie and then waste 77 minutes of my time viewing this movie. If I can't get rid of this movie, at least I can watch "THEM" if I need help falling asleep.
 Rumania is no place for the French! October 29, 2008
Philip C. Perron (New England, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The emergence of French horror within other markets has been the big news lately. One can almost make a film list as long as those from Japan, Korea, or the USA. And what does this mean to the horror aficionado? This means great news indeed.
Here we have a little film called Them. Though not a long film (maybe an hour and a quarter at most), we have nonstop suspense and guessing from the pre-credit beginning to the shocking ending. This is a story of a young French couple living in Rumania, where the young woman works as a French teacher. Luckily for them, it seems, they were able to rent a beautiful manor house in a secluded and quiet country wooded setting.
But what they thought would be a young couple's life of bliss turns out to be a horrific nightmare where they along with the audience just doesn't know who or what is behind their lurid predicament. Are our antagonists common burglers who happen to choose the wrong house? Do we have some form of cult or occult group lurking out in the middle of the woods? Are our young couple just being harrassed by some indigent folks?
No matter what, whatever is out lurking around their home and whatever they want, soon turns into a life and death struggle for the young couple. Escape to a population center is the only thing that will save our protagonists ... or so they think! And that leads to the unbelievable ending ... what was out there and why they were out there. And the reason why is probably more alarming and fear-provoking than the past hour and fifteen minutes we just watched!!!!
So if you are looking for a really good horror film here is where to start. You will in no way be disappointed.
 Another Incisive French Horror Film October 14, 2008
Kasey Driscoll (Raynham, MA United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Them or Ils is a French horror film released in 2006. A quasi-remake came out this year called The Strangers, a film I have not seen but I probably will if only to make the comparison. Them claims to be based on a true story, and whether true or not, any speculation from the audience works to the film's advantage. It follows a woman named Clementine and her husband named Lucas. Clementine is a teacher who recently moved from France to a rural part of Romania. The film opens with a scene that will tell you right off the bat what the film's intentions are but this only serves to heighten the degree to which the film's suspense is a massive success. Clementine and Lucas are disturbed at their quiet and isolated home late in the evening and the disturbances escalate gradually and intensely. Them seems like a 45 minute movie and I mean that as a huge compliment. There hasn't been a more effective thriller in a few years and it's all done with very little violence, at least when compared to some of the other films that make up this recent wave of solid French horror films (i.e. À l'intérieur, Haute Tension, and Frontière(s)).
The French have always made great films and we've seen transgressive French films surface more and more frequently over the last ten or twenty years (I think of Irreversible and some of Catherine Breillat's work). To see French cinema excel in this particular genre is no surprise and although Them's themes of paranoia and isolation are certainly in tune with this, it notably lacks the shock-factor that the more obviously violent associated films have. It makes up for all of that by serving up top-notch suspense. In fact I'd rather see horror go this route than the gore and splatter-fests that clean-up at American box offices this time a year on an annual basis.
This film makes no direct commentary but there are small voices denouncing Them as an indirect commentary and example of French fears regarding European Union expansion. An interesting angle and critique of a film that may or may not actually even know better. No worries; here in the states and perhaps everywhere else, the film will for the most part serve its purpose of sitting you down and taking you for a ride. The film's ending also hits very hard and it surprised me in a unique way. I'd recommend this over a lot of junk that will no doubt be heavily advertised to the mainstream in the coming weeks.
 "so-so" October 6, 2008
Terry L. Walls (Nashville, TN)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie was ok. Especially the very first part of the movie. If the rest of the movie was as suspenseful as the first part I would have given this movie 5 stars. It's the French version of "The Strangers." I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes suspense. You, however, will be disappointed if you watch "High Tension" or "Frontier(s)" first.
Yep! Magic people! September 8, 2008
Wulf Richardson (Kalamazoo, MI USA)
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
This movie was completely idiotic.
It is one of a long, long line of offenders which gives the villains superhuman powers of perception and movement when the villains are themselves not superhuman beings. They are, in fact, quite easy to kill--when you can catch one, which is rare because they have such abundant "magical" powers.
Make your villain supernatural--with the attendant powers--or don't. This movie is complete trash. I got suckered into renting it because the back blurb told me it was scarier than Saw and Hostel. That's not hard, since neither of those movies was scary--they just covered up their lack of subtlety with large amounts of gore.
"Them" covers up its lack of plot with large amounts of screaming, blinking lights, and shadow-antics perpetrated by the mysteriously omnipotent killers.
I used to wonder whether amanita muscaria grew in France. Now I know that it grows in abundance, since the writer, the director, the producer, all of the actors, the gaffer, the best boy, the set designer, the costume designer, and all of the makeup artists were obviously feasting on massive amounts of it from the time this piece of trash was conceived until the very end of production.
SPOILER: The killers in this case just turn out to be some ordinary kids who go directly onto a school bus after killing the main characters.
Yep, magic kids!
That's believable!
Avoid this rubbish at all costs.
You have been warned.
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